Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows are jointly credited with The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, an epistolary historical novel set just after the Second World War. Writer Juliet Ashton begins corresponding with residents of Guernsey after a stranger acquires a book that once belonged to her, and the letters gradually reveal how a reading group formed during the German occupation. The novel combines bookish humour, romance and wartime memory through multiple voices rather than conventional narration. Shaffer originated the manuscript and Barrows helped complete and revise it when illness prevented Shaffer from finishing the work alone. Their joint book fits historical fiction, epistolary novels and literary-community stories, particularly for readers who like fiction built from letters, friendship and the social role of books. Read more Less
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